When I click on an HTP link to an InfoPath form data XML file stored on a "plain old IIS server", h

[Michael Herman \(Parallelspace/OpenCanal\)]

Scenerio:

1. InfoPath is used to save an form data XML file to an IIS server
(http://myserver/foo.xml).
2. An web page on the IIS server has an HTTP link (http://myserver/foo.xml)
to the form data XML file.
3. A user (with InfoPath 2003 SP1 installed) clicks on the link in IE.
4. IE downloads http://myserver/foo.xml and launches InfoPath.
5. InfoPath reads the foo.xml file downloaded by IE (and the appropriate
form template)
6. InfoPath displays the form.

Questions

Q1. Are steps 4 and 5 technically and precisely correct?


Q2. Does InfoPath simply read/load the foo.xml after it is downloaded by IE?


Q3. Does InfoPath try to re-read http://myserver/foo.xml? ...i.e. are there
any additional attempts to access foo.xml on the IIS server?


Q4. Is there an MS/MSDN documentation that provides a very detailed
description of this process?



Thanks,
Michael.

 

[Michael Herman \(Parallelspace/OpenCanal\)]

Some conjectured that the extra HTTP GET requests were actually InfoPath
trying to issue WebDAV requests against the InfoPath form data file.

Can anyone confirm this?